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    Posted: January 23 2005 at 13:52
Wishbone Ash used the vocoder on just about every track on their "Locked in" album, boy was it tedious!Confused
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Frank Zappa - Sy Borg

about a guy having sex with a robot... ...and plooking too hard 

(the Sy Borg's voice is a robot voice)
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Points: 224 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2005 at 13:24
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by Rob The Plant Rob The Plant wrote:

ouch, poor Phil Collins, he doesn't desewrve all the bashing he gets on here.

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you peeple are funny! I dont even like robert plant! he looks l1k a gurl! (LOL!!!!)
"The world is in your hands, now use it." Good'ol Phil
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Originally posted by Rob The Plant Rob The Plant wrote:

ouch, poor Phil Collins, he doesn't desewrve all the bashing he gets on here.

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Originally posted by Matt0001 Matt0001 wrote:

Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

Alan Parsons used a vocorder a few times... don't remember if he did in I Robot or not but I remember it in a few songs during his concert....


An album by Alan Parsons? from 1977? Called "I, Robot?" It all adds up, there has to be a robot voice in there somewhere. I'll dig it out and give it a listen today.

I'll make it more clear again. The song The Voice on I Robot has a robotic line when said:

He's gonna get you
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Points: 819 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 20:17
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

And what about Peter Frampton's voice/guitar thingy, demonstrated so thoroughly across all 4 sides of Frampton Comes Alive?

On second thoughts, forget I mentioned that one.

Not forgetting Phil Collins oddly robotic 'soul' singing on much of his solo material.

 

 

ouch, poor Phil Collins, he doesn't desewrve all the bashing he gets on here.
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Aren't Godley Creme's incredible vocals on the tune I Pity Inanimate Objects , the result of some considerable time utilising the vocoder in an unique way??
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Points: 12802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 20:13
Depends if you jazz funk like jazz rock as part of prog - if so a lot of Herbie Hancock.....

Best jazz rock album (IMHO) in the last 10 years: Conrad Schrenk's Extravaganza's Save The Robots.

Buckethead seems to have this thing about robots.
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radiohead - kid a, pulk/pull revolving doors, fitter happier
dream theater - the very first lines of "6:00" ("six o clock on a christmas morning") are very robotic
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And what about Peter Frampton's voice/guitar thingy, demonstrated so thoroughly across all 4 sides of Frampton Comes Alive?

On second thoughts, forget I mentioned that one.

Not forgetting Phil Collins oddly robotic 'soul' singing on much of his solo material.

 
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Points: 72 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 14:59
Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

Alan Parsons used a vocorder a few times... don't remember if he did in I Robot or not but I remember it in a few songs during his concert....


An album by Alan Parsons? from 1977? Called "I, Robot?" It all adds up, there has to be a robot voice in there somewhere. I'll dig it out and give it a listen today.
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Points: 72 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 14:51
Wow, some great songs here. Two more here that I can't believe I forgot--Beck throws a robot voice into "Where It's At" and The Beastie Boys rock the robot in "Intergalactic."
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OBVIOUSLY IT'S RADIOHEAD'S FITTER HAPPIER - THE APEX OF ALL ROBOT VOICES.

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Points: 487 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 12:21
I believe The Buggles used a Vocoder on "Video Killed the Radio Star"
from their Age of Plastic album, as well as on numerous tracks from their
Adventures In Modern Recording album, including "I Am A Camera" which
is the same song as Yes' "Into the Lens" from the Drama album (just
recorded under a different name). Of course, this makes perfect sense,
since the song was written by Trevor Horn of The Buggles, and then Yes.
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Points: 1239 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 08:31
james lee wrote: vocoder songs? Love 'em. And I
know dozens, so you'll probably have to tell me to
stop before I run out.

How 'bout I start with the ones where the title of the
song is vocoded?

Daft Punk - Around the World


Yes!!!! Great vocoder work - even better on that
album 'Discovery' is the vocoder/sampler/keyboard
solo on 'Harder better faster stronger' - it's just
awesome - almost disco-prog
that whole album has some wonderful
soul/disco/prog-pop synths on it. Loads of
supertramp-elo-10cc references on it plus a heap of
mid-70s soul, funk and disco all mixed up with a 90s
dance vibe - I love that record it's cool. Well worth a
listen.
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Points: 107 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 05:49
Vocoder is present in Yes 'Drama' pieces like "Into The Lens" or "Tempus Fugit" and in a lot of Kraftwerk works (great great electro band).
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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 05:47

my three favorite uses are kinda obscure...Skinny Puppy's "Worlock", Stereolab's "Puncture in the Radax Permutation", and Air's "Sexy Boy". All nicely melodic and yet eerily mechanical.
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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 01:10

Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

Alan Parsons used a vocorder a few times... don't remember if he did in I Robot or not but I remember it in a few songs during his concert....

I think The Voice had some vocoder in there...

 
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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 01:06
Alan Parsons used a vocorder a few times... don't remember if he did in I Robot or not but I remember it in a few songs during his concert....
THIS IS ELP
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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2005 at 00:02
Uh, some guy used a robot voice in a song...something my friend (the one who likes Rammstein)had...it was really stupid (purposefully)...Oh yeah! I think the artist was Toby Mac or something like that...I think
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